The microbial pan-genome

TL;DR: The construction and analysis of the first pangenome for both blueberry and cranberry revealed both crops exhibit great genetic diversity, and the discovery of thousands of genes, not present in the previous reference genomes, will serve as the basis of future research and as potential targets for future breeding efforts.

TL;DR: The importance of a spatiotemporal sampling design, together with a multilevel ‘omic approach and a community analysis strategy (association networks and modeling) to examine and predict interacting microbial communities and their impact on the environment is highlighted.

TL;DR: By analysing genes unique to turnip, evidence for copy number differences in peroxidases is found, pointing to a role for the phenylpropanoid biosynthesis pathway in the generation of morphological variation in B. rapa.

TL;DR: This work interpreted pan-reactomes as dynamic pools of metabolic reactions that are potentially gained or lost and simulated the routes along which different lineages lose reactions in alternative environments, allowing us to disentangle metabolic reactions whose presence does not depend on the metabolite composition of the external environment.

TL;DR: Over 1.2 million previously unknown genes represented in these samples, including more than 782 new rhodopsin-like photoreceptors are identified, suggesting substantial oceanic microbial diversity.

TL;DR: The genomic sequence of six strains representing the five major disease-causing serotypes of Streptococcus agalactiae, the main cause of neonatal infection in humans, was generated and Mathematical extrapolation of the data suggests that the gene reservoir available for inclusion in the S. agalactic pan-genome is vast and that unique genes will continue to be identified even after sequencing hundreds of genomes.

TL;DR: Mobile elements within genomes have driven genome evolution in diverse ways and are becoming useful tools for learning more about genome evolution and gene function.

TL;DR: The current review presents the available genomics and biological data on prophages from bacterial pathogens in an evolutionary framework to demonstrate that the chromosomes from bacteria and their viruses (bacteriophages) are coevolving.